Publish Jar into Azure Artifact using gradle error

Question

What I'm trying to do is to publish a Jar file into the Azure DevOps artifact using Gradle but I got this error massage:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong: Task 'publish' not found in root project 'Project1'.
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BUILD FAILED in 1s

and the Build.gradle file is this:

apply plugin: 'java' 
apply plugin: 'maven-publish' 

publishing { 
    publications { 
        myPublication(MavenPublication) { 
            groupId 'soft' 
            artifactId 'crypto-utils' 
            version '5.2.0' 
            artifact 'C:\Users\d\Desktop\Project1\crypto-utils-5.2.0.jar' 
        } 
    } 

    // Repositories *to* which Gradle can publish artifacts 
    repositories { 
        maven { 
            url 'https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/soft/pm/_packaging/myFeed/maven/v1' 
            credentials { 
                username "myFeed"
                //The Azure DevOps Services build system will use the "SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN" to authenticate to Azure DevOps Services feeds 
                password System.getenv("AZURE_ARTIFACTS_ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN") != null ? System.getenv("AZURE_ARTIFACTS_ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN") : vstsMavenAccessToken 
            } 
        } 
    } 
} 
 
// Repositories *from* which Gradle can download dependencies; it's the same as above in this example
repositories { 
    maven { 
        url 'https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/soft/pm/_packaging/myFeed/maven/v1' 
        credentials { 
            username "myFeed" 
            //The Azure DevOps Services build system will use the "SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN" to authenticate to Azure DevOps Services feeds 
            password System.getenv("AZURE_ARTIFACTS_ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN") != null ? System.getenv("AZURE_ARTIFACTS_ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN") : vstsMavenAccessToken 
        } 
    } 
}

Any help please

Hi there, please check whether my answer below can help you. :) If not, could you please provide a sample of your pipeline task and your log, so that people have further investigation about this question. — Jane Ma-MSFT
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Jane Ma-MSFT Jane Ma-MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-08T08:14:37

The problem may be caused by using gradle in the wrong path. You need to run gradle in the same directory as the Build.gradle file.

If you are using Azure DevOps build pipeline, the root directory path of the repository is $(system.defaultworkingdirectory).

Other than that, you can try gradle clean build instead of gradle build.

Publish Jar into Azure Artifact using gradle error

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